18 Bible Verses about Cynicism

And they will say to Moses, Because no tombs are in Egypt, didst thou take us to die in the desert? what this thou didst to us to bring us forth out of Egypt? Is not this the word which we spake to thee in Egypt, saying, Desist from us, and we will serve the Egyptians? For it is good to us to serve Egypt rather than that we died in the desert

And the sons of Israel will say to them, Who will give to die by the hand of Jehovah in the land of Egypt in our sitting by the pot of flesh, in our eating bread to satiety? for ye brought us forth to this desert to kill all this convocation with hunger.

And they will contend with Moses, and will speak, saying, Would that we died in the dying of our brethren before Jehovah!

And Jezebel will send a messenger to Elijah, saying, Thus will God do and thus will he add that according to the time to-morrow I will set thy soul as the soul of one of them. And he will see and arise, and go for his soul, and he will come to the Well of the Oath which was to Judah, and he will leave his boy there. And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.

After this Job opened his mouth, and he will curse his day. Job will answer and say, The day shall perish I shall bring forth in it, and the night said, A male was conceived.read more.
That day shall be darkness; God shall not search it out from above, and the light shall not shine upon it.

Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul? Waiting for death, and it is not; and they will dig more than for hidden treasures;

And thou didst terrify me with dreams, and thou wilt make me afraid with visions: And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones. I melted away; I shall not live forever: desist from me, for my days are vanity.

And wherefore didst thou bring Me forth from the belly? I shall expire, and eye shall not see me. I shall be as I was not; I shall be brought from the womb to the grave.

Wo to me, my mother, for thou broughtest me forth a man of strife and a man of contention to all the earth. I lent not on interest and they lent not to me on interest: they are altogether cursing me.

Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed. Cursed the man who announced to my father, Good news; saying, A son, a male was born to thee; with rejoicing, making him rejoice. And that man being as the cities which Jehovah overthrew, and lamented not: and hearing the cry in the morning and the loud noise in time of noon.read more.
Because he killed me not from the womb, and my mother will be to me my grave, and her womb pregnant forever. Wherefore this came I forth from the womb to see labor and sorrow, and my days shall be finished with shame?

And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.

And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.

If according to man I fought with wild beasts at Ephesus, what the profit to me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

His strength shall be hunger, and destruction being prepared at his side.

And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite will answer and say, I few for days, and ye old men; for this I was afraid, and I shall fear showing you my knowledge. I said, days shall speak, and multitude of years shall make known wisdom. But it is a spirit in man, and the breath of the Almighty will cause them to understand.read more.
Not the many will be wise: and old men understand judgment.

As snow in summer and as rain in harvest., so honor not becoming to the foolish one. As the sparrow for wandering, as the swallow for flying, so the curse shall not come in vain. A whip for the horse, the curb for the ass, and the rod for the back of the foolish.read more.
Thou shalt not answer the foolish according to his folly lest thou shalt be like to him. Answer the foolish according to his folly lest he shall be wise in his own eyes. He drank violence, cutting off the feet, sending words by the hand of the foolish one. The legs of the lame were weak, and a parable in the mouth of the foolish. As a bundle of stones in a heap of stones, so he giving honor to the foolish one. A thorn going up into the hand of a drunkard, a parable in the mouth of the foolish. The great one piercing all, and he hired the foolish one, and those passing by. As a dog turned back upon his vomit, the foolish one repeated in his folly.

For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them. All according to all: one event to the just one and to the unjust one; to the good one and to the clean one, and to the unclean one; to him sacrificing and to him not sacrificing: as the good one, so the sinning one; he swearing, as he who shall fear an oath.

And having observed narrowly, they sent liers-in-wait, feigning themselves to be just, that they might seize upon his word, to deliver him to the beginning and authority of the leader. And they asked him, saying. Teacher, we know that thou sayest and teachest rightly, and thou receivest not the face, but teachest in truth the way of God: Is it lawful for us to give tribute to Caesar, or notread more.
And having perceived their craft, he said to them, Why tempt ye me? Show me drachma. Whose image and inscription has it? And having answered they said, Caesar's. And he said to them, Return therefore to Caesar, Caesar's things, and to God the things of God. And they were not able to seize upon his word before the people: and having wondered at his answer, they were silent.